Jaroslav Cheslavovich Romanchuk (born January 10, 1966) is a Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

ian libertarian

Libertarianism

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 economist and politician.

He currently works as President of the Scientific Research Mises Center and is Deputy Chairman of the United Civil Party of Belarus

United Civil Party of Belarus

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Life and career

Romanchuk was born into a Polish

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 family in Sapotskin, Hrodna voblast

Hrodna Voblast

Hrodna Voblast or Grodno Oblast is a voblast in northwestern Belarus.The capital - Grodno is the biggest city of the province. It lies on the Neman River. Grodno's existence is attested to from 1127. Two castles dating from the 14th - 18th centuries are located here on the steep right bank of...

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He graduated from the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1991 and finished postgradual doctoral studies at the Belarusian State University

Belarusian State University

Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...

. He later studied at various educational programmes abroad.

In 1994 Romanchuk joined the liberal conservative United Civil Party where he was advisor to Chairman of in 1996 - 2000. Since April 2000 Romanchuk is Deputy Chairman of the party.

From December 1995 till December 1996 Ramanchuk worked at the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus as a senior economist at the Commission for economic policy and reforms.

In 2002 the Mises Scientific Research Center was created at the Analytical Center «Strategy» in Minsk with the aim to promote liberal values and free market economy.

Jaroslav Romanchuk has over 1000 publications on economic problems (pension reform, effectiveness of state poverty programs, comparative analysis of social economic models, crisis of welfare state in the West etc.) in various mass media.

He is the prize-winner of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Atlas Economic Research Foundation

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Sir Anthony Fisher Award 2006, winner of Templeton award 2006, 2007; winner of International Society for Individual Liberty Marshal Bruce Evoy award for promoting liberty in the world (2003).

Romanchuk is participant of numerous conferences both in Belarus and abroad, author of Concept of Pension Reform for Belarus, alternative Budget and Tax system for Belarus, Law on Privatization, law on social security and other pieces of legislation. Chairman of the working group on social economic program of joint democratic forces of the Republic of Belarus (2005–2008). Author of National Business Platform for business in Belarus 2006-2007, NBP-2008.

Books by Jaroslav Romanchuk

• «Belarus: Choosing Economic Future» (in Russian) 1999,
• «Liberalism. Ideology of a happy person» (2007),
• «In search of economic miracle. Lessons for Belarus» 2008

Books with Romanchuk as co-author

• «Belarus: road to the future. Book for the parliament» (2005),
• «Business in Belarus. In circle One» (2006),
• «Economic Constitution for the Republic of Belarus» (2007)